How air pollution concerns stopped a China coal power project

In Europe or the US, a huge 2,000-megawatt coal power project next to a megacity of 10 million would top the list of polluting power plant proposals and attract intense scrutiny. In China, which has continued to add an equivalent amount of capacity every few weeks, permitting a project like this half a year ago was still business-as-usual for the National Energy Administration. However, what ensued after preparatory work was started on the huge coal plant was anything but business-as-usual.

The power plant was planned on the coast of the South China Sea, 50 kilometers from the megacities of Shenzhen, population 10 million, and Hong Kong, population 7 million. Greenpeace East Asia estimated that the new power plant would cause 1,700 premature deaths over its operating life, despite being fitted with state-of-the-art SO2, NOx and particulate filters.

With the terrible air pollution in the Pearl River Delta region around Hong Kong attracting increased public ire, and recent air pollution episodes still fresh in the people’s memory, the project faced a thunderstorm of public opinion opposed to new coal power plants.

Following criticism in social media and traditional media, 43 members of the city’s People’s Congress petitioned the administration to cancel the project and not to allow the construction of new coal-fired power plants anywhere within the city’s borders. The administration reacted only a few weeks later, asking the power company to cancel the power plant construction.

Coal burning is the main cause of China’s severe air pollution problem. Power plants and other industrial projects regularly face opposition because of land and water issues, but this is the first project that has been cancelled mainly on the basis of concerns about air pollution.

China has made astonishing progress in installing filters in its massive coal-fired power plant fleet. However, what has been gained through improvements in end-of-pipe controls has been offset by the doubling of coal burning over the past decade. The gains from new air pollution regulations being squandered by expansion of coal burning was a key argument against the power plant project in Shenzhen.

Guangdong still has a large pipeline of new coal-fired power plant projects, but the public concern on air pollution and pressure to stem coal use will make these increasingly unlikely to be implemented.

There is increasing recognition that the air pollution crisis cannot be solved without putting the brakes on coal consumption. As the Pearl River Delta region around Shenzhen dominates China’s coal imports, this is bad news for the coal mining companies in the US, Australia and Indonesia that are banking on China’s demand. For Chinese citizens, and for the global climate, the news is all good.

Lauri Myllyvirta is an Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace International. Co-authored by Justin Gray, Washington representative at the Sierra Club.

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Hydro Nano Gas could be the Answer for Neutralizing Carbon Fuel Emissions

Hydro Infra Technologies (HIT), a Swedish clean tech company based in Stockholm, has developed an innovative patent pending approach for neutralizing carbon fuel emissions by generating a novel gas called Hydro Nano Gas (HNG).

In spite of all the advancement happening in the energy sector, global economies are still dependent on fossil fuels as the interlinked chain of costs to completely replace the burning of fossil fuels with more clean and sustainable options is beyond the financial resources of even the richest nations.

This in turn effects the climate change scenario which has been continuously increasing as more pollution and green house gases are created from burning fossil fuels on a daily basis.

This dilemma requires a new approach with safe, cost effective and smart solutions; the solution in sight? Making any fossil fuel climate neutral – and this is exactly what HIT’s Hydro Nano Gas proposes to do.

Water contains 2 basic elements, Hydrogen and Oxygen. These 2 basic elements can be split, divided and utilized. Splitting water (H2O) is a known science. But the energy costs to perform splitting outweigh the energy created from hydrogen when the Hydrogen is split from the water molecule H2O. This is where mainstream science usually closes the book on the subject.

HIT took a different approach by postulating that it was not only possible but indefinitely sustainable to split water in an energy efficient way to extract a high yield of Hydrogen at very low cost.

The process of creating HNG involves pulsing an range of low energy frequencies in a very specific sequence into water. The pulsing treatment effectively manipulates the molecules to line up in a certain structure which are then put through a splitting process. The result is HNG.

Being exotic as it is, HNG displays some very different properties from normal hydrogen. For instance: HNG instantly neutralizes carbon fuel pollution emissions; HNG can be pressurized up to 2 bars; HNG combusts at a rate of 9000 meters per second while normal Hydrogen combusts at a rate 600 meters per second; oxygen values actually increase when HNG is inserted into a diesel flame; and finally, HNG acts like a vortex on fossil fuel emissions causing the flame to be pulled into the centre thus concentrating the heat and combustion properties.

Injecting HNG into a combustion chamber produces several effects that increase the burn efficiency of the fuels. HNG gasification effectively burns unburned residue/cluster while completing the burn process quicker. The long term impact of using HNG in the burning of fossil fuels can provide the balanced solution for the on going economic-climate change debate.

The new technology is also found to be effective in the treatment of polluted water; when HNG Nano bubbles are injected into polluted water, a microbe chain reaction is initiated that rapidly triggers and boosts the waters’ own organic repairing process. While further testing and validation are required, the discovery creates new potential in providing solutions to critical areas of global pollution.

HIT is also developing a Smoke Eliminator for all sorts of plants and facilities. The process reduces the need for smoke analysis as it results in a clean wet scrubber technology where CO2 becomes a clean by-product ready to be reused.

Further, a miniaturized version of the standard HNG reactor will help HIT achieve its goal of gassing 9,000 cubic meters of smoke volume per second. Using Nano technology, the reactor will see the beginning of a new technology phase for each HNG application, reports HIT.

The HIT innovation story begins in the 1980’s when a small team of dedicated technicians, researchers and engineers came together to innovate real world solutions based on the theoretical research conducted by Nobel prize winner Professor Yuan Tse Lee. The goal was clear - to ‘crack’ the Hydrogen code.

In late 2012, after years of on / off research and experimentation, they finally cracked the code and HNG was born.

HIT was formed to spread their discoveries to the world as Information Technology via joint venture partners.

HIT has also selected SGS – the worlds leading testing/validation and certification company – to be its’ permanent testing-validation protocol partner, providing certification that enables HIT to expand into global markets.